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On 4 Sep 2026 the New York Times reported that large U.S. companies are shifting from closed Anthropic/OpenAI APIs toward open models they can download and customize. AT&T’s chief data and AI officer said open models rose from 20% of the firm’s AI use in May to 40% now and may hit 60%, with savings of up to 80% versus earlier closed-model spend. Airbnb and Deloitte are cited on the same path. OpenRouter U.S. user data: open models were 58% of AI use last month, up from 10% a year earlier. The piece frames Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face acquisition as another signal that open weights matter for enterprise cost and control.